Melchior
Lorck
Melchior Lorck: A Life Bridging Renaissance Art and Ottoman Encounters Born: Flensburg, Germany (1526/27) Died: Copenhagen, Denmark (1583) Nationality: Danish-German Known For: Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker; detailed visual record of 16th-century Turkey. Early Life and Training Born in Flensburg, Schleswig (present-day Germany), Lorck came …
A portrait built from Melchior Lorck's own colours
Every 3 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
